Was that the one where the writer destroyed an entire city to kill his daughter and then Arsenal went and shot an arrow through some bad guy's head and made a dramatic quip?
Yes! Although I'm not sure about the quip.
Giles! I accidentally killed Spike. That's okay, right?
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Steph L. - Jun 06, 2011 3:10:26 pm PDT #3595 of 5059
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Polter-Cow - Jun 06, 2011 3:20:47 pm PDT #3596 of 5059
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yep, it was "Justice." Dramatic!
Steph L. - Jun 06, 2011 3:26:12 pm PDT #3597 of 5059
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Oh, I forgot how that played out -- it was Arsenal's daughter (who would be Green Arrow's granddaughter) who was killed. Green Arrow got all vigilante and killed Prometheus; Arsenal didn't kill him. Possibly because he lost an arm.
Polter-Cow - Jun 06, 2011 3:29:42 pm PDT #3598 of 5059
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yeah, okay, because I did think it was Green Arrow who did the killing. Because he was green and shot an arrow.
How did Arsenal lose an arm? Did his friends pull it off for science knowing it would grow back?
I don't even know who Arsenal is. Apparently Green Arrow's son.
Tom Scola - Jun 06, 2011 3:33:56 pm PDT #3599 of 5059
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Arsenal is Speedy.
Strega - Jun 06, 2011 3:42:55 pm PDT #3600 of 5059
I think "The Rise of Arsenal" took the worst ever crown. In the last issue he beat his evil ex with an extension cord, discovered he was impotent, smoked heroin, and beat up some dudes to protect a dead cat that he mistook for his daughter. Because heroin.
Then Batman kicked him in the face.
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§ ita § - Jun 06, 2011 3:52:37 pm PDT #3601 of 5059
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yes, Rise of Arsenal is definitely one I've seen cited as worst ever. And shortly after that the dead cat is brought up.
Steph L. - Jun 06, 2011 4:14:43 pm PDT #3602 of 5059
I look more rad than Lutheranism
How did Arsenal lose an arm? Did his friends pull it off for science knowing it would grow back?
He lost his arm during Cry For Justice, but before his daughter was killed in the explosion that leveled his city. Prometheus cut his arm off, IIRC, and was behind the explosion (and, hence, death of Arsenal's daughter).
Yes, Rise of Arsenal is definitely one I've seen cited as worst ever.
It's possible Cry For Justice was "worst ever" until Rise of Arsenal came along (because it was after Cry For Justice; in fact, I think CFJ existed just to set up the Arsenal bullshit).
P.M. Marc - Jun 07, 2011 7:55:00 am PDT #3603 of 5059
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Red Hood and the Outlaws #1 will be written by Scott Lobdell and drawn by relative newcomer Kenneth Rocafort. In it, Jason Todd finds himself as a leader of a team of antiheroes – including "Green Arrow's rejected sidekick Arsenal and Starfire, a former prisoner of intergalactic war."
So many ginger jokes, so little time.
§ ita § - Jun 08, 2011 3:56:10 am PDT #3604 of 5059
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.